Posted on 01/28/2002 2:05:28 PM PST by John Jorsett
KOGO AM 600 talk show host Roger Hedgecock has just broken the story that the INS has arrested ten illegal aliens (he gave the nationalities, but I can't recall any other than Honduras) at the Point Loma nuclear submarine base in San Diego. The aliens were employed by a contractor and were engaged in the sandblasting and painting of a nuclear submarine! 5 of the aliens had obtained base clearances, and 5 had not. Some aliens fled at the approach of the INS, causing the lockdown of the base. 2 were later apprehended when their hiding place was located. When the INS refused to comment, the KOGO news staff requested the name of the FBI agent in charge of Homeland Security for the San Diego area. They were told that there was none.
The same way Tyson was able to outfox the INS pilot verification program. Get somebody's real SSN, feed it into the system, and then have a fake SSN card/DL produced to match.
Chapter 3: Top Priorities for Improving Intelligence and Law Enforcement (PDF 204k)
Excerpt:
Priority #4: Strengthen the visa approval and border security mechanisms. The first line of defense against terrorists today often involves a determination by a consular officer or Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) inspec-tor that an alien should or should not be allowed to enter the United States. Legally entering the United States was remarkably easy for the September 11 terrorists. The visa approval and entry?exit processes must be strengthened, as should the ability of LEAs to enforce existing immigration laws against aliens who are in violation of those and other laws. Consular officers must have more information upon which to make a visa decision. At the same time, the Secretary of State should leverage the approval of a waiver as permitted by the Visa Waiver Program to enhance the anti-terrorism cooperation of other countries. Mechanisms to enforce immigration laws against aliens who violate the terms of their visas or who enter the country without inspection also should be strengthened.
Priority #5: Reduce the opportunities for identity theft and fraud in state identity document systems. False documents continue to be a major problem, and the terrorists involved in the September 11 attacks showed that they will exploit those States with systems most liable to fraud. Any State that continues to run a document system subject to fraud and abuse places the lives of all Americans in jeopardy. Current procedures for the issuance of identity docu-ments, including driver?s licenses, birth certificates, and death certificates, must be tightened and a mechanism developed to deter and prevent identity theft.
Press release: here
Arlington, VA Today the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators? (AAMVA) Task Force on ID Security announced its recommendations for strengthening and unifying inconsistencies in the North American driver?s license issuance process.
Recommended Strategies
AAMVA recommends eight broad strategies:
1. Improve and standardize initial driver?s license and ID card processes.
2. Standardize the definition of residency in all states and provinces.
3. Establish uniform procedures for serving noncitizens.
4. Implement processes to produce a uniform, secure, and interoperable driver?s license/ID card to uniquely identify an individual.
5. Establish methods for the prevention and detection of fraud and for auditing of the driver?s license/ID processes.
6. Ensure greater enforcement priority and enhanced penalties for credential fraud.
7. Seek U.S. federal and other national requirements for legislation, rule making and funding in support of AAMVA's identification and security strategies.
8. Establish public and stakeholder awareness and support.
I have to disagree. If they are carrying a consular ID card, they're illegal. Why would a Mexican tourist/visitor need to get the consular ID if they can get a new passport? Whatever contingency the card was originally intended to cover, it has been superseeded by the coordinated campaign by all consulates to get the cards accepted as valid ID so that illegal aliens are not arrested and deported.
I used to think this way until Bush started babbling about Amnesty for millions of Mexican illegal aliens. If that wasn't enough Bush recently announced he wants to restore welfare for immigrants. He is pushing this agenda even though every poll taken on immigration shows that Americans want reform on all immigration-legal and illegal. No, Bush for whatever perverse reason indirectly supports, by not enforcing our immigration laws, illegal immigration and, for that matter, any kind of immigration from 3rd world countries.
For anyone that didn’t see it, there is a news story out on FR today that the U.S. is likely to bring in 12,000 Somali Muslims this year under the refugee act. I guess we didn't know that America needs more unskilled, uneducated, culturally incompatible 3rd world immigrants here. Hard to believe given 9/11 but true. I really doubt we will be hearing Bush talk about this in his State of Union speech tomorrow.
My opinion is that Bush is a captive of powerbrokers in business that have a vested interest in unlimited immigration and cheap labor. If Bush pulls his horns in on immigration it will only be because his advisors tell him that it will cost him votes in 2004.
When there are at more than 10 million illegal aliens running around the country anything is possible.
Boy, he is one heck of an irrational number.
Well, Smartcards use induction from the reader to power the card. Most readers use low power and requires close proximity to charge and then read the card. One could assume that increasing the power and upping the sensitivity of the reader would enable the gubmint to trigger and read the card from a greater distance, much the same process that toll roads are starting to employ.
Personally, if I get a gubmint issued national ID smartcard; the first thing I'm gonna do with it is give it a few seconds in a microwave.
The special antifouling paint used on a submarine is illegal for civilian use. Very toxic to the environment.......but how many submarines are there compared to pleasure craft ?
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